Trying to decide where to apply for college? The U.S. News & World Report released its annual best colleges list today and Texas can claim two of the top 50 national universities — Rice University in Houston and the University of Texas at Austin….
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Mayor Julian Castro’s touting of education at his keynote speech at the Democratic National Convention attracted criticism of his local record on education from conservative pundits. Castro is currently in the throes of campaigning for a sales tax increase to fund more pre-K programs in San Antonio, which he mentioned in his nationally televised speech Tuesday night. […]
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Though the University of Texas System regents discussed incentive pay for presidents, building projects and graduation rates for campuses across the system during a two-day meeting this week in Austin, one agenda item was notably benched.
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The U.S. Supreme Court has scheduled October 10 oral arguments for a case that challenges racial preferences for undergraduate admissions at the University of Texas at Austin – a ruling on which could upend affirmative action admissions policies at the nation’s higher education institutions. In 2008, Abigail Noel Fisher, a white student from the Houston area, sued …
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The Association of Texas Professional Educators has honored Francisco Vara-Orta, an Express-News education reporter, with its Alafair Hammett Media Award for newspapers with a daily circulation of 50,000 or greater.The association presented him with the award at a banquet Monday in Austin. It bills itself as the largest educators’ group in Texas, affiliated with the largest non-union educators’ group nationwide. A panel of seven judges drawn from an ATPE committee based Vara-Orta’s win on …
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Roommates of the University of Texas at San Antonio graduate student mauled by chimpanzees in South Africa have raised more than $13,300 by Monday morning to help pay for medical and travel expenses. But they say more will be needed.
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